2012 PBA Governors' Cup

Third conference of the 2011–12 PBA season 2012 Governors' Cup File:PBA2011-12 govcup.png May 20 – August 5, 2012 Sports5 – AKTV on IBC (Local) Aksyon TV International (International) Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra Kings) Jamelle Cornley(Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) Rain or Shine Elasto Painters B-Meg Llamados 2011 PBA Governors' Cup 2011 2013 PBA Governors' Cup 2013 2012 Commissioner's 2012 PBA Commissioner's Cup 2012–13 Philippine 2012–13 PBA Philippine Cup The 2012 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, was the third and last conference of the 2011–12 PBA season. The tournament started on May 20 and culminated on August 5 with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters team defeating the B-Meg Llamados team by 4 games to 3. The tournament was an import-laden format, which allowed an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with a height limit of 6-foot-5. Format The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:PBA reverts to old-school format for 2012 Governors’ Cup https://web.archive.org/web/20120521210422/http://www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/pba-reverts-to-old-school-format-for-2012-governors-cup 2012-05-21 , InterAKTV, May 19, 2012 Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. The top six teams after the eliminations will advance to the semifinals. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #6 seed. Semifinals will be a single round-robin affair with the remaining six teams. Results from the eliminations will be carried over. A playoff incentive for a finals berth will be given to the team that will win at least four of their five semifinal games that does not finish within the top two. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #2 seed. The top two teams (or the #1 team and the winner of the playoff between team with at least 4 semifinal wins and the #2 team) will face each other in a best-of-seven championship series. Elimination round Team standings Schedule table matchup BSK 1 Air21 L/W/L/L/L/L/W/L/L BGK/TNT/ROS/BMEG/BBE/MER/POW/ALA/PBB 2 Alaska L/W/L/L/L/L/L/L/W ROS/BBE/POW/PBB/MER/BMEG/TNT/BGK/A21 3 B-Meg OTL/W/W/W/W/W/L/L/OTW ROS/BGK/BBE/MER/A21/ALA/PBB/TNT/POW 4 Barako Bull W/L/L/W/W/L/L/L/W POW/ALA/BMEG/PBB/A21/ROS/TNT/BGK/MER 5 Barangay Ginebra W/L/W/L/W/L/W/L/W A21/BMEG/MER/ROS/PBB/POW/ALA/TNT/BBE 6 Meralco W/L/L/L/W/L/W/W/L TNT/PBB/BGK/BMEG/ALA/ROS/A21/POW/BBE 7 Petron Blaze W/W/L/W/L/L/W/L/W POW/MER/TNT/ALA/BBE/BGK/BMEG/ROS/A21 8 Powerade L/L/W/W/W/W/L/L/OTL PBB/BBE/ALA/TNT/ROS/BGK/A21/MER/BMEG 9 Rain or Shine W/OTW/W/W/L/W/W/W/W ALA/BMEG/A21/BGK/POW/MER/BBE/PBB/TNT 10 Talk 'N Text L/L/W/L/W/W/W/W/L MER/A21/PBB/POW/ALA/BBE/BGK/BMEG/ROS Results main BSR grey Team y 60px 95% A21 ALA BMEG BBE BGK MER PBB POW ROS TNT Air21 80–110 78–91 100–109 85–103 77–106 97–98 128–121 92–106 97–86 Alaska — 61–77 104–84 81–90 95–100 94–107 97–114 100–107 72–80 B-Meg — — 95–90 96–88 88–83 80–92 110–98* OT 94–100* OT 72–89 Barako Bull — — — 91–102 81–79 111–107 106–101 90–100 89–109 Barangay Ginebra — — — — 100–73 83–80 83–86 90–93 111–113 Meralco — — — — — 88–101 91–78 77–81 105–99 Petron Blaze — — — — — — 97–83 82–103 87–102 Powerade — — — — — — — 104–98 110–105 Rain or Shine — — — — — — — — 92–90 Talk 'N Text — — — — — — — — — complete Sixth seed playoffs Three teams were tied for sixth, with only one team advancing. The three teams were first ranked by head-to-head quotient, with the best team drawing a bye to the second round, and the two worst teams playing in the first round.First round Second round no Barako Bull Energy 95 Powerade Tigers 99 Meralco Bolts 94 Powerade Tigers 86 First round #eee July 3 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Barako Bull Energy 95 Powerade Tigers 99 Second round #eee July 4 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Meralco Bolts 94 Powerade Tigers 86 Semifinal round Team standings Schedule table matchup BSK 1 B-Meg W/W/L/W/L TNT/PBB/MER/BGK/ROS 2 Barangay Ginebra W/W/W/L/W MER/PBB/ROS/BMEG/TNT 3 Meralco L/L/L/W/W BGK/ROS/TNT/BMEG/PBB 4 Petron Blaze W/L/L/L/L ROS/BGK/BMEG/TNT/MER 5 Rain or Shine L/W/L/L/W PBB/MER/BGK/TNT/BMEG 6 Talk 'N Text L/W/W/W/L BMEG/MER/PBB/ROS/BGK Results main BSR grey Team 55px BMEG BGK MER PBB ROS TNT B-Meg 82–70 101–104 104–93 82–92 94–91 Barangay Ginebra null 89–76 87–85 95–86 73–71 Meralco null null 113–112 86–99 84–108 Petron Blaze null null null 90–88 94–103 Rain or Shine null null null null 90–98 Talk 'N Text null null null null null complete Finals berth playoff #eee July 20 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City B-Meg Llamados 74 Barangay Ginebra Kings 72 Finals 2012 PBA Governors' Cup finals #eee July 22 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 91 B-Meg Llamados 80 July 25 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 80 B-Meg Llamados 85 #eee July 27 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 93 B-Meg Llamados 84 July 29 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 94 B-Meg Llamados 89 #eee August 1 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 81 B-Meg Llamados 91 August 3 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 81 B-Meg Llamados 97 #eee August 5 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 83 B-Meg Llamados 76 Rain or Shine wins series, 4–3 Imports The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the entire conference. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Air21 Express Zach Graham May 23 (vs. Ginebra) June 29 (vs. Petron Blaze) 2–7 Alaska Aces Jason Forte May 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) June 27 (vs. Air21) 2–7 B-Meg Llamados Marqus Blakely May 25 (vs. Rain or Shine) August 5 (vs. Rain or Shine) 13–9 Barako Bull Energy Jamine Peterson May 25 (vs. Powerade) June 1 (vs. B-Meg) 1–2LeRoy Hickerson June 8 (vs. Petron Blaze) July 3 (vs. Powerade) 3–3 Barangay Ginebra Kings Cedric Bozeman May 23 (vs. Air21) July 20 (vs. B-Meg) 9–6 Meralco Bolts Champ Oguchi May 23 (vs. Talk 'N Text) June 6 (vs. B-Meg) 2–3Mario West June 10 (vs. Alaska) July 15 (vs. Petron Blaze) 5–5 Petron Blaze Boosters Eddie Basden May 20 (vs. Powerade) June 29 (vs. Air21) 5–4 Marcus Faison July 6 (vs. Rain or Shine) July 15 (vs. Meralco) 1–4 Powerade Tigers Rashad McCants May 20 (vs. Petron Blaze) May 25 (vs. Barako Bull) 0–2 Omar Sneed June 1 (vs. Alaska) July 4 (vs. Meralco) 5–4 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Jamelle Cornley May 20 (vs. Alaska) August 5 (vs. B-Meg) 14–7 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Paul Harris May 23 (vs. Meralco) July 18 (vs. Ginebra) 8–6 Awards Conference Best Player of the Conference: Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra Kings) Best Import of the Conference: Jamelle Cornley (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) Finals MVP: Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. May 20–27Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) ANOTHER SIZZLING START FOR ROOKIE LEE, PBA.ph, May 28, 2012 May 28 – June 3Gary David (Powerade Tigers) HARD WORK TRULY PAYS OFF, PBA.ph, June 4, 2012 June 4–10Gary David (Powerade Tigers) FIERY PACE, PBA.ph, June 11, 2012 June 11–17Jay Washington (Petron Blaze Boosters) RECOVERY ROUTE, PBA.ph, June 18, 2012 June 18–24Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) 'THE BLUR' DAZZLES TNT FOES, PBA.ph, June 25, 2012 June 25 – July 1Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) LEE GUIDING E-PAINTERS TO SCALE NEW HEIGHTS, PBA.ph, July 2, 2012 July 2–8Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra Kings) THE SPARK SHOWING KINGS THE WAY, PBA.ph, July 9, 2012 July 9–15Marc Pingris (B-Meg Llamados) EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE FOR LLAMADOS, PBA.ph, July 16, 2012 July 16–22Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) FROM PURE GUNNER TO ALL-AROUND PLAYER, PBA.ph, July 23, 2012 References External links PBA.ph Category:PBA Governors' Cup Governors' Cup